Ashley Osgood

Ashley Osgood is a marketing associate at IBS America Inc . She blogs at info.ibs-us.com/blog

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Quality Observations: Management: Control Quality Assurance by Keeping it Simple

July 18, 2012
There is a perception vs. reality when it comes to quality, so an effective quality improvement strategy must comprehend the differences that exist between the two. Both of these must be recognized, understood and managed in order to move forward.
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Quality Observations: Key Strategies for Effective Problem Solving

June 18, 2012
How does effective problem solving tie in to quality management?
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Quality Observations: Preventing the Titanic Disaster 100 Years Later

April 19, 2012
Let's examine how health and safety systems, risk management, and other quality management principles could have been applied to prevent this tragedy.
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Quality Management 2.0: Deming's 7 Deadly Diseases of Management

January 20, 2012
W. Edwards Deming "14 Points" break down the need for a working understanding of basic quality management system statistical principles. Deming also outlined Seven Deadly Diseases, which describe the most serious barriers that management potentially faces within an organization.
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A Practical Field Guide for ISO 9001:2008

The purpose of this field guide is to assist organizations, step by step, in implementing a quality management system (QMS) in conformance with ISO 9001:2008, whether from scratch or by transitioning from ISO 9001:2000. It examines each sub-clause of Sections 4–8 of ISO 9001:2008, which contain the requirements, and gives a list of the documentation/documents required, internal audit questions, a summary of management’s responsibilities, and a flowchart of the steps that need to be undertaken to satisfy the requirements.

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